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A stolen loan fee and a cell phone taken through an Internet auction site are two of the latest scams to affect county residents this month.

In a Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office incident report report filed Jan. 16, a 31-year-old Lancaster woman informed deputies of a possible Internet scam after she applied for a $3,000 loan from an online company.

The victim said she spoke with a man who instructed her to send a MoneyGram for $298.86 to be used as a processing fee so she could get the loan.

When Lancaster County School District Director of Secondary Education Jonathan Phipps called Indian Land Middle School counselor Curwood Dillingham’s name during Tuesday, June 15th’s school board meeting, Dillingham jumped from his seat and bounded down front, arms raised like a victorious Olympian.

Despite being turned down by the U.S. Postal Service for a ZIP code change, an Indian Land resident with a Lancaster ZIP code says she’ll continue her effort with a new strategy.

Jan Tacy is one of 68 homeowners in Indian Land’s Walnut Creek subdivision off Jim Wilson Road who have Lancaster addresses ending with the 29720 ZIP code. Most other homes and all other neighborhoods in the area have Fort Mill addresses that use Indian Land’s dedicated 29707 ZIP code, created in 2007.

ATLANTIC BEACH – A former Atlantic Beach town manager and Lancaster Police Department chief was recently found guilty in an Horry County courtroom of assault on a town resident.

Benny Webb, 54, of Sumter, was charged with third-degree assault and battery in May 2012 following a S.C. Law Enforcement Division investigation conducted at the request of the Atlantic Beach Police Department.

Often, when schools raise money, students are sent home bearing boxes of candy bars, glossy brochures of flavored popcorn or other items to hawk door to door, most of which eventually gets sold by parents.

Not North Elementary School. They went another route – like having students run around the gym awhile.

With urbanized clusters now springing up in the Panhandle, Lancaster County Council discussed the future of highway funding in that area during its first meeting of the year Monday, Jan. 14.

County Administrator Steve Willis said due to Indian Land’s burgeoning population, as reflected in the 2010 Census, several stretches of the area are now designated as urban by the Catawba Regional Council of Governments (COG).

As such, Wills said those areas no longer qualify for rural highway funding through COG, like the rest of Lancaster County.